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Declassified documents reveal army lobbied Attorney General not to prosecute soldiers

Barry McCaffrey, thedetail.tv | 15 April 2013

The Director of Public Prosecutions could be asked to reopen hundreds of Troubles-related cases involving killings from the 1970s following the discovery of statements in newly declassified papers which suggest soldiers were allowed to escape prosecution.

Both UK and Ireland failed to focus on loyalist violence

Margaret Urwin, Irish Times | 08 August 2013

Prof Henry Patterson’s article in The Irish Times last month (“Could Dublin have done more to defeat the IRA?”, September 14th, 2013) gave an interesting perspective on cross-Border security, alleging significant failings by successive Irish governments to come down hard on the IRA during the confli...

Declassified documents reveal army lobbied Attorney General not to prosecute soldiers

Barry McCaffrey | 15 April 2013

The Director of Public Prosecutions could be asked to reopen hundreds of Troubles-related cases involving killings from the 1970s following the discovery of statements in newly declassified papers which suggest soldiers were allowed to escape prosecution. The declassified Ministry of Defence papers...

"Lethal Allies" - main conclusions

PFC | 23 August 2013

The Pat Finucane Centre appeals to everyone on the island of Ireland carefully to consider the implications of its newly-published book which makes clear collusion was systemic in Mid-Ulster and the border region during the 1970s. We believe both communities suffered as collusion merely served to fu...

Perfidious Albion - Cover-up and Collusion in Northern Ireland

Paddy Hillyard | 04 January 2013

The British government's dealings in Ireland have long been characterised by cover-ups, deceit and perfidiousness. This includes collaboration between British security forces and loyalist paramilitaries, the obstruction of legal investigations, the refusal to hold public enquiries, and the introduct...

Questions of the past should be answered in full

Truth, Amnesty and Prosecutions - Models for Dealing with the Past

Kieran Mc Evoy and Louise Mallinder at QUB | 03 December 2013

This brief document is one of a range produced by the authors as part of an ongoing project Amnesties, Prosecutions and the Public Interest in the Northern Ireland Transition. This project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), is a partnership between Queen’s University Belfast...

Transcript of Westminster Hall Debate - Glenanne Gang Murders

24 years after Finucane killing, the damage limitation continues

Barry McCaffery, The Detail | 12 February 2013

TODAY marks 24 years since solicitor Pat Finucane was shot dead in a killing which has become a defining symbol of the state’s complicity in the Troubles. The government-commissioned report into the murder has yielded secrets of the “dirty war” which still have the power to shock – such as the exist...

Inspection of the Police Service of Northern Ireland Historical Enquiries Team

HMIC | 03 July 2013

Upon the request of the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), in 2012, the Minister of Justice for Northern Ireland commissioned HMIC to inspect the role and function of the Historical Enquiries Team (HET). The inspection focused on whether the HET’s approach to reviewing...

No confidence in PSNI investigation

John Patrick Cunningham | 07 October 2013

The family of a Tyrone man murdered by British soldiers outside Benburb in 1974 have called on the PSNI to "respect the wishes of the family and stop any PSNI review or re-investigation of the killing." John Patrick Cunningham, (27) a vulnerable adult, was shot in the back by soldiers of the Life Gu...

'Poisonous Legacies' Report

PFC | 31 August 2013

The Poisonous Legacies conference was organised by the Bloody Sunday Trust and the Pat Finucane Centre for Human Rights to mark the third anniversary of publication of the Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. It was held in Derry’s Guildhall, where the Inquiry – chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate...

No confidence in PSNI investigation

Press Release | 07 October 2013

The family of a Tyrone man murdered by British soldiers outside Benburb in 1974 have called on the PSNI to "respect the wishes of the family and stop any PSNI review or re-investigation of the killing." John Patrick Cunningham, (27) a vulnerable adult, was shot in the back by soldiers of the Life Gu...

John Patrick Cunningham

Statement by Alan Brecknell (PFC) | 19 March 2013

Thank you all for coming. You should all have a briefing note giving full details about the killing of John Patrick Cunningham who was shot by two British soldiers in the Life Guard Regiment near his home at Benburb, County Armagh, on Saturday 15 June 1974 at approx. 11.50 am. Our concern is not onl...